As a physician, you are aware of the ongoing need to update your knowledge on the latest research in the field of medicine that you are practicing. In endocrinology, we may not encounter such a large number of new medicaments as e.g. in cardiology. However, many interesting and mostly clinically oriented studies are ongoing also in our field. To be acquainted with them means to improve the care for our patients.

The more we worked on the book you are now reading, the more I got to like the idea of it.

This book gives an opportunity to authors literally from all over the world to present their medical expertise and express their opinion on selected interesting topics in hypothyroidism. Individual chapters of this book represent the most up-to-date reviews of literature combined with the clinical experience of the authors.

Authors were asked to choose their own topic of interest concerning hypothyroidism. Interestingly, the majority chose to write on a theme connected with development: pregnancy, growth and hypothyroidism in childhood. Management of thyroid disorders in pregnancy seems to be a never-ending source of discussions and even disputes. Here we provide two comprehensive reviews on this controversial topic. Surprisingly for me as a non-paediatrician, the opinions on treatment of subclinical hypothyroidism in childhood may also differ quite substantially.

If you want to learn how to differentiate the conditions when watchful waiting is enough from situations when immediate levothyroxine substitution is crucial, our book might help you. Moreover, if you are thinking of performing thyroid ultrasound by yourself, or you do it already and maybe are not so sure about it, our last Chapter might be a practical guide for you in the visualisation of a hypothyroid gland.

Perhaps you will not agree with everything that is written in this book; and this was not our goal. Our book will help you form your own opinion. Our most important message is that whichever country we live in, we want to give the best treatment to our hypothyroid patients.

Section 4 of the textbook : Imaging Techniques .

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